No news yet

Since arriving in Boston a week ago, I had my CT scan on Tuesday (which came out well) and I had an appointment with a surgeon on Friday. My original surgeon decided to refer me on to another surgeon, because the cancer is in a little bit of a tricky location. He said he’d contact the new surgeon that same day, and that one or the other of them would contact me by Monday. The weekend passed uneventfully, and it’s now the end of Monday.

So this evening I texted the original surgeon asking if I should call the new surgeon’s office tomorrow and he replied, “Swapped messages. Waiting to speak to him. Will update you when we speak – hopefully tomorrow. The office will give you a crazy date – would hold off for now”

We are very lucky to be in direct contact with the doctors (thanks to Emily), but even that doesn’t make things happen immediately.

This cancer is a slow type, so there’s not a huge emergency. It’s just that we’re out here in Boston, waiting. And I want to get the treatment started because I’m dreading it, and I want to it over with! Also it would be really useful to know whether I’m going to be here for approximately 2 months, or if it’s going to be close to a year.